Word: porcelain
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...determine what substances are primary irritants, clinical ecologists isolate the patient in a carefully controlled environment. At Brookhaven, for example, Rossall lives in a ceramic-tiled room (she will later move to one covered with porcelain). Her mattress is pure cotton, as are her pillows, sheets and clothes, all of which are washed in unscented baby soap or baking soda. Visitors dress in cotton garments and must not wear makeup, perfume or deodorant. At each meal she eats only one dish-ranging from organically grown vegetables to wild game such as bear and lion-prepared in aluminum pans. She drinks...
...million overhead, including salaries for 400 of the 3,400 Inaugural committee staffers, will be raised from the largest offering of souvenirs ever. A 14-page brochure of commemoratives, mailed to millions of Americans, lists copies of a Frederick Remington bronze at $1,875 per, a porcelain "Nancy Reagan rose" for $650, a set of highball glasses for $35, even pieces of wood from the reviewing stand encased in Lucite for $28. Inaugural auto license plates, valid in any state until March 15, come in two models: $25 ones bearing only numbers and $35 "vanity plates" with a choice...
Crowds in U.S. cities have been equally curious about the traveling Chinese show. Western eyes are delighted by fine Peking porcelain vases, trays made of glowing cinnebar lacquer and Ching dynasty emperors' robes of embroidered yellow silk as thin as a breath of air. Visitors have also been intrigued by a large dragon vase that is said to be able to determine the severity of an earthquake by the way a set of balls rolls from the dragon's mouth into those of the eight toads below...
...equilateral triangle. On each side there are 13 place settings (a reference to the Last Supper, with Christ and his twelve Disciples). The 39 settings commemorate mythic or real women, goddesses and culture heroines, from the Bona Dea of prehistory to Georgia O'Keeffe. Each consists of a porcelain goblet, porcelain cutlery and a large plate, all reposing on ornamental cloth runners. Most of the plates bear designs based on the female genital organs, though one of them, representing English Composer Ethel Smyth, is in the shape of a grand piano, and another, commemorating the black abolitionist Sojourner Truth...
...first sight, the Dinner Party appears a typical banquet, each setting with porcelain flatware, a translucent chalice, and a goldedged napkin. The plates, however, jump off the stark white table cloth, vivid, enthusiastic and colorful, exuding female sexuality. Beneath each plate, an elaborately hand-embroidered runner illustrates the life of the guest at that place. Continuing the symbolism of the plate, the runners illustrate in the art-forms of the day the lives of the women...